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orabbit wrote:Can anyone give me feedback as to what could be improved?

Lose the brick wall bit. It's distracting and doesn't really add anything to the design. Here's a picture of BB sleeping for ref:Typically, dreaming is illustrated with thought bubbles. You don't have to frame cthuluphagus in clouds, but maybe just a couple coming out of BB's head.

eta: BB is a minor character in this illo, maybe diminish his prominence to just a silhouette? Cthuluphagus was instantly recognizable from the thumb, so there's that.

ochopika

Your main shirtcomp image should be halftoned. Woot wants your illustrator file without halftones so they can make their own, but they still ask everyone to convert the whole image to halftones for the shirtcomp, so all derby entries are free from gradients. (That might be one reason you've had some rejections)

I didn't think of this before, but I want to highlight what Spiritgreen said. It is important to convert your WHOLE image to halftones for your shirt comp. This is so that people are voting for the image as it will REALLY look on a shirt. Your design will look much smoother and shinier as gradients, but that's not how it really looks as a printed design. Woot may have rejected your designs because of that, also it's kind of "false advertising" if you think about it... not that you're trying to do that, just saying that making the whole thing half-toned is another way you can fend off the rejections.

vielleicht

I love the middle cat, although I wish the cat-suit was more obviously, well, a suit. More obvious stitch patterns, maybe? Meh, still got my vote. It's cute, it's cats, it makes me smile...that's about all it takes.

collinvh

Thanks for checking out our design this week. Please welcome new artist JuanMunoz to the derby. This guys got some skills and I really had fun coloring his sketch. Please vote if you like the shirt... and say no to bullies!

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